'Green Shopping'

An article I found on CNN.com, emphasizes on how America is creating environmental damage. "One American's consumption of resources is equal to that of thirty-five Indians" and one American creates thirteen times than a Brazilian in environmental damage. To go 'greener', encouraging Americans to buy less wouldn't be a great outcome. But by encouraging people to buy energy-efficient products, people bought more. Also, there are an increase of shopping online. Though, the question was if the Internet is helping or hurting the environment. Helping the environment is not necessarily the case. The shops are getting their vans to deliver the products to the consumers. In this case, it took the vans to travel four times more than before which in turn increasing the greenhouse gas emissions. Though according University of Sydney, studies say that "Shopping habits represent such a large part of greenhouse gas emissions that even if every household switched to renewable energy and stopped driving cars tomorrow, total household emissions would fall by less than 20 percent."